Pack Your Stuff Without Checking Your Bags

I'm visiting New York right now, and since I hate checking bags, I didn't pack my beloved Jan Marini glycolic wash because the container is too large for the carry-on. And wouldn't you know it? A tiny pimple is developing. Failure!

Next time I fly the friendly skies, I'm going to be ready with Flight 001's Carry-On Bottle Set ($16). The set includes seven three-ounces-or-less containers inside a quart-sized plastic pouch — so instead of worrying about size issues, I can just decant my cleanser and other must-haves, then be on my way. So easy.

Of course, you can assemble a similar kit on your own to save a few bucks; stores such as Target sell plastic bottles for less than a dollar each. But if convenience is what you crave, Flight 001's version does the work for you.

Unfortunately some sick TSA agents are now confiscating anything in an unmarked jar! (Power-crazed? Ignorant? Or both?) Fortunately the only thing I bring in-flight is moisturizer and that's in a small enough jar. Really, its made travel quite ridiculous...

Ooh, I like this! I'm a big collector of little travel bottles for airplanes since I can't ever leave my favorites behind -- mini, I've found a couple of little round jars that I scoop moisturizers into. Some of my current ones came from Rite Aid and some from a Japanese store called Daiso. (I know, random.)

I know at Macy and online at Philosophy they have little tubes with HIAJ for travel --sample sizes. I buy the small bottles for travel at Walgreens and I fill those suckers up, some bottles have the same products. I then buy the Zip lock travel bags and put all of my stuff in there and go. I am doing more over night trips and day trips and a girl needs her beauty stuff.

my problem is finding a way to bring my hope in a jar with me! bottles are all well and good for the shampoo and cleanser, and you can usually find trial sizes that will work, but i must have my hope in a jar, and can't figure out how to bring it!

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